This is definitely one of the more interesting photography discoveries I have come across in a while - these two pictures show interior shots of one of the kilns at the Moses Paige (1847/47-1941) Pottery in Peabody, Massachusetts. I suspect these pictures date from the circa 1900-1930 period. This business was no different in a historical context in New England than the Stahl and Medinger potteries in Pennsylvania during the same period.
There is a good amount of documentary photography that survives from this pottery today, although these two images are as important as any of the other documented examples.
I recently came across these photos in the archival collection at the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, and they will be published without the courtesy marks in my forthcoming 485-page book, A City on the River: The Early Red Earthenware on the Hartford, Connecticut Area. Some of the wares seen in these images are comparable to objects produced by the Goodwin family and other potters working in the Harford area.
Interestingly, the pitcher shown in the photo to the left is likely black glazed; there are surviving black glazed pitchers exactly like this one that have been found in various contexts in New England. I have always speculated that they were made at the Paige Pottery, and this serves as proof that they were likely all made in Peabody.
Images Showing the Interior of One of the Kilns at the Moses Paige Pottery in Peabody, Mass.
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